{"id":134,"date":"2006-07-24T23:15:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T04:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2006\/07\/24\/text-in-the-gimp\/"},"modified":"2014-01-25T00:15:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T05:15:40","slug":"text-in-the-gimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2006\/text-in-the-gimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Text in The Gimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-second text rendering tutorial:<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose the text tool and draw some text (doh!)<\/li>\n<li>Select the newly created text layer on the Layers page<\/li>\n<li>Right-click on the newly created text layer and select Duplicate &#8211; you now have two layers of text<\/li>\n<li>Choose the text tool again<\/li>\n<li>Select the first layer and double click on the text<\/li>\n<li>Right-click text, select &#8220;Create Path from Text&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Select->From Path<\/li>\n<li>Layer->Layer to Image size (don&#8217;t do this earlier to avoid &#8220;issues&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Select->Grow Selection->4 pixels<\/li>\n<li>Fill with the desired text border color<\/li>\n<li>Select the second layer and double click on the text<\/li>\n<li>Right-click text, select &#8220;Create Path from Text&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Select->From Path<\/li>\n<li>Layer->Layer to Image size\n<li>Select->Grow Selection->1 pixel<\/li>\n<li>Fill with the desired jelly-donut filling!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThe final result, from the girls&#8217; new soccer websites for the <a href=\"http:\/\/hollyspringssirens.com\">Sirens<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/hollyspringswaves.com\">Waves<\/a>:<br \/>\n<center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hollyspringssirens.com\/templates\/68style\/images\/header.png\" alt=\"The Holly Springs Sirens\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><\/center><br \/>\n<center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hollyspringswaves.com\/templates\/68style\/images\/header.png\" alt=\"The Holly Springs Waves\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><\/center><br \/>\nMore details are on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tldp.org\/linuxfocus\/English\/May1998\/article36.html\">the original tutorial that helped me<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-second text rendering tutorial:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10,9],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-tricks-tips-tools","category-websites","tag-gimp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-2a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}